netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of %pS and %ps

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0i8JiQGk25yZKQqTzCCY+nrfoKXOH8nM6eNPhkN-i+y9w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:30:01 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of
 %pS and %ps

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:21 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> %pS and %ps are now the preferred conversion specifiers to print function
> %names. The functionality is equivalent; remove the old, deprecated %pF
> %and %pf support.

Are %pF and %pf really not used any more in the kernel?

If that is not the case, you need to convert the remaining users of
them to using %ps or %pS before making support for them go away
completely.

That said, checkpatch can be made treat %pf/F as invalid format right away IMO.